The Cuisine of Trinidad & Tobago, The Caribbean & Beyond!
My personal thoughts and reflections on my cooking escapades
In the past few months I’ve gotten to know so many fine food blogs. After a while of reading a blog regularly I find that I also start to become curious about the mind and history of the person behind it. That’s why I decided …
Things have really picked up at TriniGourmet.com this month! Not only have I almost reached 200 posts! 😮 But comments have averaged between 20-40 a post 🙂 This upsurge made my old commenting system and search engine terribly unwieldy, so over the past 48 hours …
Ever since I started trolling food blogs I would notice writers responding to ‘being tagged’ and ‘tagging others’. It seemed so fun and cute, grade school and cliquey. As someone who was always picked last in P.E. (gym class) and was never much of a …
When I started TriniGourmet.com my aim was to feature and promote the distinctive cuisine of Trinidad and Tobago. In the few months since I started this blog I have been thrilled to see it grow and reach more people than I had thought would have …
I love the world of blog events. This time around I have to thank Veron of Kitchen Musings for making me aware of Lucullian Delight’s ‘Show Me Your Kitchen’. In that spirit, this is where I prepare all my dishes 🙂 It is pretty basic, …
Hi there! And an even more special hello to all of you in RSS feed land 🙂 Currently TriniGourmet sends out the first 2 or 3 lines of a post to those who have chosen to subscribe via this method. I did this for several …
Well the actual term is National Delurking Week, but that leaves us global bloggers out! 🙁 Held in the second week of January , Delurking Week is a time in the blogosphere when all of you silent readers are encouraged to come out of the …
Carambola is a fruit that was not very popular in my life until recent years, possibly a casualty of the flood of foreign fruit imports that became popular in the Nineties. Now however, with everyone tightening their belt, local produce is once again taking center …
My Mint Tea Cocktail 🙂 So… continuing on my previous thoughts on the culinary association of the Caribbean with rum I did some internet trolling. Among my finds (which are now merrily archived for later reference) was an article by Ramin Ganeshram (author of Sweet …
In an effort to continue sharing the culture and cuisine of Trinidad and Tobago beyond the limits of this digital confine I’m gonna be sending out little thank-you packages to my Top 5 Commenters to date. These people have made logging onto TriniGourmet a joy …
As I had mentioned last year (oh it feels surreal to say that!) every year my Aunt brings over her famed Trinidad Black Cake in the same tins that she has kept them in since I can remember. That is one of the tins above. …
I am clueless about wine. Utterly clueless. In fact I only just realized that some is red and some is not…. (ok not -that- bad but believe me I’m pretty bad). Last year there seemed to be an explosion of niche wine stores and wine …
The results are in! 164 votes were counted, and this is how they broke down! [poll=2] At first I was surprised but then I realized that the majority of people who found TriniGourmet (especially in the last month) were Trinidadians searching for traditional Trinidadian Christmas …
I still remember the day I was handed my first copy of the Naparima Girls’ High School Cookbook. I was preparing to leave Trinidad for Smith College, filled with excitement and nerves, and someone I loved placed it in my hands with a knowing …